Women’s Health
February 8, 2014
Hypertension Guidelines: Less Pressure to Treat?
Recent hypertension guidelines by the ACC/AHA substantially relax treatment standards. I explain why I disagree with the changes, as do various other professional groups. Here's the short story.
February 8, 2014
Osteoporosis Screening and Treatment
Hip and spine fractures caused by osteoporosis are serious. We can detect and treat osteoporosis safely and effectively. Here's a quick update.
January 8, 2014
Vitamins Do Not Prevent Cancer or Heart Disease
Last month the USPS Task Force released a comprehensive analysis of studies that looked at possible benefits of vitamins and vitamin/mineral combinations in reducing cancer and preventing heart disease. The report reiterated that they found no evidence that vitamins helped either class of disease.
October 18, 2013
More on “Low T”
Testosterone is not everything and is overmarketed. Twin bathtubs are quaint. Women's libido is the next frontier, but far in the distance.
June 5, 2013
Sensible Intake of Calcium and Vitamin D
Vitamin D and calcium are essential for bone health and normal bodily metabolism. Parts of the medical community got overly enthusiastic in the last decade and suggested unnecessarily and possibly harmfully large intake of both nutrients. Sensible daily intake from diet and supplements is 1000 mg calcium and 1000 IU of vitamin D for most…
August 28, 2011
Screening Mammography:How Effective?
Dr. Kanner looks at a Norway study which separated the benefits of screening mammography from breast cancer treatment improvements. Mammography is clearly helpful, but the help may be more modest and come with more adverse effects than recognized before.
November 21, 2009
Women’s Health: Confusing New 2009 Mammogram Guidelines
A preventive medicine task force just suggested that women not have mammograms in their 40's and should only be screened every two years after that. And don't bother with breast self-exam or your doctor's breast exam. And the gynecologists' task force declared that no women should have Pap smears before age 21 and less frequently…
February 28, 2008
Cardiac Calcium Score Helps Define Women’s Cardiac Risk
The Study: A superb study concerning the cardiac calcium score was published in December 2007 in the Archives of Internal Medicine. It looked at about 3600 women aged 45 to 84 who were considered to be at low risk of heart disease (less than 10% chance in the next decade) according to the Framingham Risk…